Winners of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020

Arquivo.pt , a research infrastructure managed by FCT through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), announced the three winning finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020.

The first prize, worth 10,000 euros, was awarded to the “ Desarquivo ” project developed by Miguel Ramalho. In this project, a tool was developed that allows verifying the relationship between entities, people, organizations and places based on news published online over the last 20 years. This tool is public. Students, researchers, or any citizen can use it to quickly and dynamically explore the contents and relationships established.

The project “ Arquivo.pt Extension ” won second place, with a prize of 3,000 euros, and was developed by Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva. This is an extension for the current Arquivo.pt browser, which allows you to perform advanced searches directly from the browser, without having to leave the page you are currently viewing.

Nuno Bragança was the winner of the third prize, worth 2,000 euros, with the project “Arquivo Económico.pt”, which consists of an application that allows the comparison of product prices since the time of the Portuguese escudo.

The Honorable Mention of this edition of the Arquivo.pt Award was given to the project “Jornal do Passado”, developed by Bruno Galhardo. The project consists of a game in which the user tests their knowledge about news or events, trying to guess the date on which they occurred. The game is based on work done in the Público newspaper's archive at Arquivo.pt and the mention was attributed by the Público newspaper.

The projects to Call were evaluated by an independent jury, composed of Miguel Fontes (executive director of Startup Lisboa), Helena Freitas (biologist and professor at the University of Coimbra), Paulo Bastos (TVI journalist), Maria Beatriz Marques (professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Literature in the area of Documentary Sciences) and Teresa Firmino (editor of the Science section of PÚBLICO). The prizes will be awarded to these winners at the Science Meeting 2020 , which takes place in early November.

Arquivo.pt is a research infrastructure that archives all web pages published in Portugal since 1996 and has an online search service that provides access to all archived information. The main objective of Arquivo.pt is to preserve information published on the web for memory, study and research, with access to the entire population.

Every year the FCT opens the Call of “Prêmio Arquivo.pt” projects, with the 1st edition taking place in 2018. The results of the 1st edition can be found at Prêmios Arquivo.pt 2018 and those of the 2nd edition at Prêmios Arquivo.pt 2019 .